motivation

This is a continual work in progress pulled from various wikis and documents that I've used more than I ever expected to clarify one concept or another...

and a reminder that in addition to "whiles" and "ifs" and "loops", a fully realized deliverable also includes:

• Observability - how we trace and monitor the solution

  • monitoring - New Relic, SignalFX

  • metering - dropwizard, ...

  • tracing solution - like Zipkin

• Microservice ambassadors and side-cars

  • discovery

  • circuit breaker

  • configuration and secrets management

• Logging and error handling solution

  • logging strategy and utilities

  • error handling strategy

• Quality control

  • unit testing

  • integration testing

  • acceptance testing

  • performance testing

  • code quality such as lint, Jacoco, Sonarqube

  • mutation testing

  • chaos

• Continuous integration and delivery

  • build tools such as Gitlab, Jenkins, Jenkins X

  • deployment tools such as Terraform, Packer

  • Production platforms such as AWS, GKE, or Azure

  • Soft platforms such as Kubernetes